Where is Stacy…

I was holding Stacy on the sofa when I noticed there was a stuffed pink bear with a white shirt and Stacy was in pink with a white bib.  Hmm, which one is Stacy?

Oh!  I see Stacy…she is the one with the smile!

Happy Friday everyone!

Aunty Sandy…

Aunty Sandy came for a quick visit last week.   She got to meet Stacy and visit all of us!

For some reason Jack was so hyper when Aunty Sandy was there that it felt like there was 10 other kids in the room with us.  It was so noisy and chaotic that it must have been blissfully quiet when we left!

Lounge…

The apple really does not fall far from the tree.   While Jack may like to go to the pool he also likes to ‘picnic’ at the pool.   That means I have to lug a cooler up the pool with food, snacks and drinks!  

  

Jack likes to eat his P&J on the lounge chair, with a bag of chips and a cold drink.

I think I was so distracted getting him ready for the pool with his food and sunscreen that I forgot to put sunscreen on my face!  I put it on my body but I forgot my face and boy did my face get R-E-D.

Jack:  Daddy why is your face so red?

Miles:  I am sun burned.

Jack:  What is sun burned?

Miles:  It means we have been out in the sun too long and we should go home so Daddy’s face won’t be so red.

Jack: No.  How about if I pour water on your head to wash off the red.

Miles:  That won’t work.

Jack:  Yes it will…lets try.

Miles:  No. 

Jack:  <Pouring water on my head>  That didn’t work.

Miles:  I told you.

Jack:  How about if you dive under water to get rid the red?

Miles:  NO.  That won’t work.  Lets go home.

Jack:  Try it.  Try it.

Miles:  Fine.

Jack:  Hmm…that didn’t work either.  Your face is RED.

Kids…totally over rated!!

Like a fish…

With all our warm weather lately, we decided to take advantage of our pool and go swimming.  Who would have known that Jack is outlasting me at the pool.   We went to the pool on Saturday and Sunday for over 4 hours each day!

It is one thing to go to the pool, lounge, hang out, read, take a nap and then take a dip in the pool.  It is another thing to stay in the water for over 4 hours just watching a little kid practice swimming back and forth in the pool!

Jack is really becoming more confident in the water and loves to go to the pool:

Stacy even came up for a bit and put her little feet in the water.

Finally…I’m Back online…I think….

Crap bag.   First my home desktop went out.  Then my XBOX went out.   I got a new XBOX and I replaced my desktop with my gaming desktop.  Two days after I setup my gaming desktop, I got a virus and BOOM no more desktop.   After about a week of tinkering around I finally just formatted my HD, repartitioned the drives, installed Windows7 64-bit and I am back in business!

I could go on and on about my PC issues but suffice it to say, Aya was the one that magically touched my PC and then it started working out of the blue.  Totally bizarre.  I can’t explain.  I don’t want to…all I know is that it works!   So without further ado, let me start updating the blog!

The other night it was just Jack and I at home.  I decided to take Jack someplace nicer than our usual haunts so we went to Akasha for dinner.   This place wasn’t really kid friendly and they were in no rush to serve us.   It also meant that Jack and I didn’t have any stellar dinner conversation as I had to interrupt his Leapster playing to take a picture:

Jack loved his Gruyere bread crusted mac-n-cheese:

Jack ate a lot of his dinner so I thought he would be too full for dessert, but apparently he had enough room for 6 cookies and a scoop of ice cream!

No XBOX and no PC…

Crap.  Last week I was playing Tiger Woods 2011 and right in the middle of my game my XBOX died on me.   Yup, the red ring of death.  I was not a happy camper.   Luckily XBOX came out with a new cheaper version, called XBOX arcade.   I just swapped the hard drive and viola…new XBOX.

Sadly that was just the beginning of my problems.  After I fixed my XBOX, my PC hard drive died on me.  Luckily I backup my drive on a regular basis so I only lost a few files.   I was debating to use my laptop, my gaming PC or just buy a new desktop.  I decided to set up my gaming PC and that was working great…until I got a virus.

I think I finally got rid of the virus but I haven’t really used the PC much and I haven’t downloaded pictures off my camera.   It was so hot this weekend that Jack and I went to the pool instead of staying indoors to fix the PC and download pictures.

Hopefully, I will get everything back up and running in the next few days.

Stacy at 6 months…

Aya loves this pose when Stacy reaches and grabs onto to her feet:

Wow…6 months already.   At times it doesn’t feel like time goes by fast enough but more often then not I can’t believe how fast time goes by.  It just seems like Stacy is growing every day and getting heavier every day!

OTD = Out to Dinner…

After Aya and I got married, we always said that we would eat dinner and spend Friday nights together.   After a while I got tired of  hearing the same thing:

Miles:  Where do you want to go? 

Aya: I don’t care, where do you want to go?” 

or

Miles": Where do you want to go? 

Aya:  I don’t care, where ever. 

Miles: Okay, Taco Bell. 

Aya: No, I don’t want that. 

Miles": McDonalds. 

Aya: No I don’t want that either.” 

Miles:  Well if you said wherever, then what is wrong with Taco Bell or McDonalds?

So I instituted a new rule, Aya and I would alternate who picks, pays and drives to dinner.   The other person couldn’t complain about the dinner choice.  We did take into consideration what we ate for lunch that day or for dinner the past few nights, as Aya doesn’t like to eat the same thing two nights in a row.

After Jack was born, we started going out on Friday nights again and we made Friday, family dinner nights.  Now we alternate between Aya, Jack, Stacy and I.   Stacy doesn’t really pick, since she neither eats or talks but it is a place holder so Jack doesn’t get to use her pick.   Jack loves to go to Souplantation but Aya and I hate going there. 

Lately Jack has started to pick different places to eat, like The Counter, Cafe Del Rey and Tony P’s.   I don’t what it is but Jack really loves to eat at a restaurant.  If  we try to order in on Friday and not go out, Jack gets upset and doesn’t like it.  He tries to convince us that we should go out and get something to eat.  It’s not like he gets a lot of different things as the kids menu is pretty standard, mac-n-cheese, spaghetti, pizza, chicken nuggets.  For the most part he only gets spaghetti and pizza but nevertheless he loves to go out.  

I think Jack just like it when someone serves him his meal but then Aya and I serve him his meals at home.  I think this kid is just like his mom and wants to go out and be treated like a king…and sadly I am an enabler and continue to take him out to restaurants.

T-Ball…

Jack was suppose to start t-ball last week but it has rained in the morning so  I guess they cancelled class.   Oh well, it just gave us more time to practice.

Even though Jack likes playing basketball the most, I think he is better in t-ball.  He hits the ball quite well off the tee and he has pretty good power.   Jack can even hit under hand pitching about 30% of the time.   He doesn’t have the same power as when he hits off the tee but he makes contact. 

Jack pretends to be a pitcher a lot and like to throw the ball.  Unfortunately he can’t catch the ball well.    Fielding the ball is totally a lost concept on him….as he is content to watch the ball roll past him…stop…AND then he chases after the ball.

I think I am going to try to take Jack to his first baseball game this season to watch the Dodgers.

Big Eyes….

I know, I know, how many entries can I do saying Stacy has big eyes, but I just can’t help but stare at Stacy’s big eyes!  

I think I finally figured out why I think Stacy has such big eyes.   It is because her eyes are almost all eyeball and no white of the eyes.     I wonder if her eyes will continue to look big as her head get bigger?   I hope so.

VYCC Part 2…

As we left the carnival, I was pushing Stacy in the stroller and Jack wanted to run ahead off ahead of us.  As Jack was running he tripped and fell.   He got up slowly and he was hunched over:

I assumed he scrapped his knees but as I got closer to him I could hear him breathing deeply and going, “ooooo-hhhhh'”.

Miles:  What’s wrong?  Did you hurt your knee?

Jack:  Just a little bit.

Miles:  Okay then lets go.

Jack:  Oooo-hhhh.

Miles:  What’s wrong?   Its just a little boo-boo on your knee, quit being a girl.

Jack:  My weenie hurts.

Miles:  What?

Jack:  I landed on my weenie.

Miles:  What?    Go ahead and rub it, it might make you feel better.   <I was totally laughing so I couldn’t even get Jacks full head in the picture>

 

Miles:  Does it feel better when you rub it?

Jack:  A little bit.

  

Miles:  Okay, let go then.

VYCC Part 1…

I totally forgot about the Venice Carnival this year.  I had just dropped Aya off at the airport and I came back home with the kids and noticed on Facebook people were talking about the carnival.  Crap.  I asked Jack if he wanted to go and he did so I threw the kids in the car and off we went!

Jack was totally lousy at the games this year.   Good lord he was lousy.   It was like he purposely lost so he wouldn’t get a stuffed animal but would get a lollipop instead.  Those were some expensive lollipops Jack got.   We ran into Taylor at the carnival and two of them played games together.

Jack was not satisfied with just his lollipop so we had to stop and get some cotton candy:

  

Jack did enjoy throwing cupcakes!  He didn’t care who he was throwing the cupcakes at but he just thought it was so funny that he could throw cupcakes at people.  He loved it! 

4th of July…

Since my folks were in Australia for Kevin’s wedding, we headed over to there house with Dawn and her friends to watch the fireworks.    Misa wanted to make a special guest appearance on the blog, so here is your shout out!

Culver City had a good show this year.  I don’t think they had as many large fireworks but they had more medium size fireworks and more frequent fireworks going off.   Bryan had some left over sparklers from last year and Jack really enjoyed playing with the sparklers.   It is almost scary how Jack isn’t afraid of fire or holding the sparklers.

Stacy managed to sleep thru all the 4th of July festivities but  still showed her patriotism in her red, white and blue outfit.

 

Stacy…

Stacy trying to play peek-a-boo or she is trying for the muslin look:

Early talker or slow walker.  Stacy coo’s and babbles way more than Jack did and she has very strong legs already…but I am guessing Stacy will be an early talker:

One of the RARE pictures of me with Stacy…rare because Aya does operate the camera well so I am the one always taking the pictures:

 

Oh look…just like mommy, Stacy is hungry and eating!

Swimming…

Jack is getting so gosh darn comfortable in the water now, that I think he will be swimming like a fish by the end of summer. 

He was really grown leaps and bounds the past month or two in swim class.  You can just see the confidence he has in the pool now.  Jack is holding his breath well and paddling and kicking his legs well.  I think he will finally move up a swim level now.  Woo-hoo!!